Top 38 Basketball League Quotes
#1. As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.
Bryan Greenberg
#2. In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
Julius Erving
#3. If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic ... all those 'iches.
Shaquille O'Neal
#4. It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort.
Joe Abercrombie
#5. There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.
Deborah Roberts
#6. I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
Terry Crews
#7. We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.
Mark Gottfried
#8. After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.
Dikembe Mutombo
#9. In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
Zac Efron
#10. In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.
Bobby Keys
#11. I blame Riley for my broken thumb, not Matt Geiger. That ain't defense Miami is playing. That's just chopping. I have no idea how his team gets away with it. I guess when you've been in the league 30 years you can do it. Respect, he gets it - he's like John Gotti.
Shaquille O'Neal
#12. All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It was making it to college. That's about it.
Kevin Durant
#13. When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.
Oscar Robertson
#16. [The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.
Jerry West
#17. Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
Jennie Finch
#18. Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
Bob Marley
#19. You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
Larry Bird
#20. Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#21. Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
#22. Steal from those beneath you; attack those above you.
Michael Lewis
#23. I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake ...
William Butler Yeats
#24. In Phil's case, I was personally thrilled he came back, because I think it's huge for the league. When you think about what he's done and how many championships he's won, there's always drama when he comes back in.
Gregg Popovich
#25. I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.
Chadwick Boseman
#26. I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.
Terri Blackstock
#27. I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
Jonah Hill
#28. Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
Doug Flutie
#29. My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.
Steve Nash
#30. We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.
Shaquille O'Neal
#31. Massoud is dead, but not the hope ! (Massoud est mort, - Mais pas l'espoir !)
Charles De Leusse
#32. My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.
David Stern
#33. I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.
Dennis Rodman
#34. My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.
Michael Finley
#35. I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?
Shaquille O'Neal
#36. I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
Ed Bradley
#38. If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.
LeBron James
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